SPF Americas hosts a value-packed program split into eight tracks that cover the hottest topics in EH&S, Sustainability, Risk Management and Technology Innovations. The program is designed to help you address industry challenges and make the most of your time at the event. Each of the eight topic-focused tracks are composed of case studies, issues & trends, and live demos of the Enablon solutions.

SPF Americas allows you to customize your experience. You can follow one track for the entire conference or hop around to specific sessions that are the most interesting to you.

10:30AM – 12:00PM — Keynote

EHS professionals have too often been modest about the value they create for their company’s performance in every aspect of its business. In this part of the keynote Enablon and Partner Executives discuss the true impact of futureproof EHS operations: from demonstrating and delivering business value to leveraging new technologies.

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More businesses use technology than ever before to manage the ever-changing regulatory landscape. Efficiencies realized in recent years through these advances are starting to erode. By moving away from data integration, government agencies are forcing a more manual process. SiteHawk presents the challenges businesses currently face maintaining compliance to SARA 312 & 313 and offers recommendations for adjusting to a more restrictive technological environment.
In this session, SiteHawk:

Examines recent changes to SARA 312 & 313

Explores the outcomes of changes and the future of SARA 312 & 313

Offers practical recommendations for supporting the changes to Tier2 Submit

Every day, a new technology that will change the way we operate is gaining momentum. In the EHS space, Internet of Things (IoT) devices will multiply by 100 the data we can collect, wearables will ensure worker safety, drones will do high risk inspections, etc.. Also, the rise of public cloud services will ease enterprise software hosting, availability and adoption. Join us to discover the latest technology trends in EHS.

During this session, you will:

Get an overview of all the technology trends.

Learn how Enablon will use those trends to reinforce its EHS software offering.

Are you thinking about upgrading your solution to the latest version? Are you wondering what steps, challenges, and investment are needed? Hear straight from the customer how Enablon continues to improve the upgrade experience with:

By now you’ve discovered that Enablon is not only a platform but also an enterprise class technology as a service. Discover how your business can benefit from extending your existing platform. Join us and learn more about our technology capabilities, innovations and future improvements.

Hear how Colonial Pipeline and other customers across different sectors have leveraged the flexibility of Audit & Compliance solutions to meet their immediate and long-term business needs. Understand which strategies worked in different scenarios to make the most effective decisions for your organization’s use of these applications.

If you are using an EHS Software but don’t use mobility, then you are losing a lot of value. In this session, you will learn more about the significant results achieved by innovative, forward-looking companies that deployed Enablon Mobile Apps in the field.

During this session, you will:

Get concrete examples of the value and benefits of deploying mobility

Hear from Enablon customers about challenges they faced and how they succeeded to overcome them.

Learn more about new Enablon apps and capabilities.

Learn how you can leverage Knowledge Management to achieve higher return on your Enablon investment.

6:30PM – 9:30PM — Cocktail Reception, Awards Ceremony & Gala Dinner

Enjoy a unique Chicago experience with a complimentary night out.
Relax, network with industry peers and continue conversations from the conference during dinner. Join us at the largest science museum in the Western Hemisphere, the Museum of Science and Industry for an unforgettable evening of fun and delicious food. Stand inside a 40-foot tornado. Mingle below historic aircrafts. Experience special surprises during the after party! Trolleys depart from the Radisson Blu Aqua Hotel and head to The Museum of Science & Industry from 5:30PM to 6:30PM.

Highlights:

Cocktail Reception: Sip on amazing cocktails while exploring one of a kind exhibits at the Museum of Science and Industry

Gala Dinner: Enjoy a delicious dinner that features local and seasonal ingredients from one of Chicago’s most talented culinary teams.

9:40AM – 10:20AM — Breakout Sessions

Hear from industry experts on their perspectives of current product compliance issues and trends, what future influences are on the horizon and how organizations can ready themselves for those challenges.

Hear from industry experts on their perspectives of current health & safety issues and trends, what future influences are on the horizon, and how organizations can ready themselves for those challenges.

Successful platform adoption occurs when users are delighted, and when they take full advantage of the rich features of the Enablon solution. Explore effective learning strategies to realize this potential. Take lessons from actual client stories. Hear suggestions for facilitating learning during the project and in ongoing sustainmnent activities. Take a peak at Enablon’s future vision to enhance platform learning.Speakers:

Mobility, IoT, Wearables, etc … New technologies will bring significantly more data in your system in the next years. Advanced analytics technologies will help you better understand the data and extract significant value out of it: Prevent & predict incidents, performance benchmarking, smart suggestions, etc.

Understand how machine learning and predictive analytics can change the way you manage EHS

See real advanced analytics use cases and results

Know how to become an early adopter and collaborate with your peers to create relevant industry models

12:00PM – 12:40PM — Breakout sessions

Managing your global chemical compliance requirements can seem like a hall of mirrors – customer requirements, government regulations, and material complexities can lead you to a feeling of creeping dread that the problem is unsolvable. In this session, a Tier-1 Automotive Supplier will discuss how they broke this problem down into its individual parts, mapped those parts to existing data systems in their company, and engaged Enablon to pull all the pieces together for them. What they have now is a platform that can be maintained by ONE person and used to meet their customer, regulatory, and business chemical compliance requirements around the world.

During this session you’ll learn:

How to leverage software into greater program participation that lead to improved results

How to implement a robust and cost-effective management program

How to move from common product compliance management and leverage the technology to begin establishing a program to improve performance

Hear customers tell their story of how they moved from software selection, requirements management, implementation and training through to go-live, support and next subsequent phases. Pick up tips and ideas for your business case or learn how to best govern your software selection project to further advance your Sustainability & EHS program.

During this session you’ll learn:

How to leverage software into greater program participation that lead to improved results

How to implement a robust and cost-effective management program

How to move from common environmental management and leverage the technology to begin establishing a program to improve performance

Learn how a global Agribusiness industry leader with a 90,000 strong workforce, and ranked among the largest on the Singapore Exchange, uses Enablon to reduce risk, prevent incidents and gain reporting efficiencies within their Safety and operational teams.

Hear Wilmar tell their story of how they moved from software selection, requirements management, implementation and training through to go-live in multiple languages, support and next subsequent phases. Pick up tips and ideas for your business case or learn how to best govern your software selection project to further advance your EHS system and program.

Are you looking for optimizing your software investment’s time to value? Take advantage of the opportunity to discover which implementation path works best for your corporation and how Enablon can help you in this process. Each company should base their implementation procedure on their own business requirements, budget, schedule, resources and change management needs. The following topics will guide you to choose the best implementation methodology option:

Mobility, IoT, Wearables, etc… New technologies will bring significantly more data in your system in the next years. Advanced analytics technologies will help you better understand the data and extract significant value out of it: Prevent & predict incidents, performance benchmarking, smart suggestions, etc.

During this session, you will:

Understand how machine learning and predictive analytics can change the way you manage EHS

See real advanced analytics use cases and results

Know how to become an early adopter and collaborate with your peers to create relevant industry models

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Enablon, a Wolters Kluwer business, is the world’s leading provider of Sustainability, EH&S and Operational Risk Management Software. More than 1,000 global companies and 1 million users rely on Enablon software solutions to manage their environmental and social performance, minimize risks and improve profitability. Enablon offers the most comprehensive platform in the industry, and is consistently recognized as a global leader and visionary.